linux-kernel - Re: [net-next][PATCH v2 01/13] RDS: Drop stale iWARP RDMA transport

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Message-ID: <20160228090547.GA6671@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 28 Feb 2016 01:05:47 -0800
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next][PATCH v2 01/13] RDS: Drop stale iWARP RDMA transport

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 06:19:38PM -0800, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> RDS iWarp support code has become stale and non testable. As
> indicated earlier, am dropping the support for it.
> 
> If new iWarp user(s) shows up in future, we can adapat the RDS IB
> transprt for the special RDMA READ sink case. iWarp needs an MR
> for the RDMA READ sink.

Please take a look at the RDMA RW API series I posted yesterday - if
you can adopt RDS to that you should get iWarp support for free.

But having two different codebases for IB/RoCE vs iWarp was always a bad
idea, so great to see the second one retired!

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>